linux-kernel - Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory

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Date:	Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:45:37 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
To:	Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Michael Riepe
<michael.riepe@...glemail.com> wrote:
> Currently, make firmware_install puts all firmware blobs in
> /lib/firmware. If you have several kernel versions installed, they will
> overwrite each other's files, which may lead to problems if the blobs
> eventually change. I think it would be better to use a separate
> directory for every kernel version, like /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) or
> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/firmware (the latter is my favorite).
>
> In either case, only a minimal modification in /lib/udev/firmware.sh is
> required to make it look in the new directory first.
>
> Comments?

firmware version depends on hardware version not by kernel (software) version.

So /lib/firmware is absolutely OK.

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JSR
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